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</style><p><b>Nvidia</b> <b>ShadowPlay</b> is a <a href="Hardware_acceleration" title="Hardware acceleration">hardware-accelerated</a> <a href="Screen_recording" class="mw-redirect" title="Screen recording">screen recording</a> utility available as part of <a href="Nvidia" title="Nvidia">Nvidia</a>'s <a href="GeForce_Experience" class="mw-redirect" title="GeForce Experience">GeForce Experience</a> and <a href="Nvidia_App" class="mw-redirect" title="Nvidia App">Nvidia App</a> softwares for <a href="GeForce" title="GeForce">GeForce</a> GPUs. Launched in 2013, it can be configured to record a continuous buffer, allowing the user to save the video retroactively.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> ShadowPlay is supported for any Nvidia GTX 600 series card or higher.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Technical_details">Technical details</h2></div>
<p>ShadowPlay can use two capture methods: Frame Buffer Capture (NVFBC) and Inband Frame Readback (NVIFR). NVFBC is used in full screen mode. NVIFR allows the capture of a single window instead of the whole framebuffer.
</p><p>Once ShadowPlay captures a frame, it encodes it using a dedicated GPU hardware accelerated H.264 video encoder that records up to 4K resolution at 130 Mbit/s with minimal performance impact to the rest of the system.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The bitrate can be set manually and ranges available depend on user screen resolution.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Release">Release</h2></div>
<p>Nvidia ShadowPlay originated in a <a href="Nvidia_Shield_TV" title="Nvidia Shield TV">Nvidia Shield</a> <a href="Hardware_acceleration" title="Hardware acceleration">hardware-accelerated</a> <a href="Screen_recording" class="mw-redirect" title="Screen recording">screen recording</a> utility.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was set to release at the same time as the <a href="Nvidia_Shield" class="mw-redirect" title="Nvidia Shield">Nvidia Shield</a> (June 2013) but was delayed and was pushed to being released during the summer of 2013 but was postponed again. On September 20, an Nvidia forum representative posted a thread to the GeForce forums, stating that the product was being delayed due to a problem with the video formats. It was released in a public beta on October 28, 2013 in the 331.65 driver.
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</style><cite id="CITEREFWhite2022" class="citation web cs1">White, Monica J. (2022-01-24). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/use-nvidia-shadowplay-for-recording-gameplay/">"How to use Nvidia ShadowPlay to record your gameplay"</a>. <i>Digital Trends</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2022-04-16</span></span>.</cite></span>
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<li><a href="GeForce_700_series" title="GeForce 700 series">700</a></li>
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<li><a href="GeForce_GTX_900_series" class="mw-redirect" title="GeForce GTX 900 series">900</a></li>
<li><a href="GeForce_GTX_10_series" class="mw-redirect" title="GeForce GTX 10 series">10</a></li>
<li><a href="GeForce_GTX_16_series" title="GeForce GTX 16 series">16</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Ray_tracing_(graphics)" title="Ray tracing (graphics)">Ray tracing</a> & <a href="Tensor_Cores" class="mw-redirect" title="Tensor Cores">Tensor Cores</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="GeForce_RTX_20_series" title="GeForce RTX 20 series">GeForce 20</a></li>
<li><a href="GeForce_RTX_30_series" title="GeForce RTX 30 series">30</a></li>
<li><a href="GeForce_RTX_40_series" title="GeForce RTX 40 series">40</a></li>
<li><a href="GeForce_RTX_50_series" title="GeForce RTX 50 series">50</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Software_and_technologies10" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Software and technologies</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Multimedia acceleration</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Nvidia_NVENC" class="mw-redirect" title="Nvidia NVENC">NVENC</a> (video encoding)</li>
<li><a href="Nvidia_NVDEC" class="mw-redirect" title="Nvidia NVDEC">NVDEC</a> (video decoding)</li>
<li><a href="Nvidia_PureVideo" title="Nvidia PureVideo">PureVideo</a> (video decoding)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Software</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Cg_(programming_language)" title="Cg (programming language)">Cg</a> (shading language)</li>
<li><a href="CUDA" title="CUDA">CUDA</a></li>
<li><a href="Nvidia_GameWorks" title="Nvidia GameWorks">Nvidia GameWorks</a>
<ul><li><a href="OptiX" title="OptiX">OptiX</a> (ray tracing API)</li>
<li><a href="PhysX" title="PhysX">PhysX</a> (physics SDK)</li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Nvidia_Omniverse" title="Nvidia Omniverse">Nvidia Omniverse</a> (3D graphics)</li>
<li><a href="Nvidia_RTX" title="Nvidia RTX">Nvidia RTX</a> (ray tracing platform)</li>
<li><a href="Nvidia_System_Tools" title="Nvidia System Tools">Nvidia System Tools</a></li>
<li><a href="VDPAU" title="VDPAU">VDPAU</a> (video decode API)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Technologies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Nvidia_3D_Vision" title="Nvidia 3D Vision">Nvidia 3D Vision</a> (stereo 3D)</li>
<li><a href="Nvidia_G-Sync" title="Nvidia G-Sync">Nvidia G-Sync</a> (variable refresh rate)</li>
<li><a href="Nvidia_Optimus" title="Nvidia Optimus">Nvidia Optimus</a> (GPU switching)</li>
<li><a href="Nvidia_Surround" class="mw-redirect" title="Nvidia Surround">Nvidia Surround</a> (multi-monitor)</li>
<li><a href="Mobile_PCI_Express_Module" title="Mobile PCI Express Module">MXM</a> (module/socket)</li>
<li><a href="SXM_(socket)" title="SXM (socket)">SXM</a> (module/socket)</li>
<li><a href="NVLink" title="NVLink">NVLink</a> (protocol)</li>
<li><a href="Scalable_Link_Interface" title="Scalable Link Interface">Scalable Link Interface</a> (multi-GPU)</li>
<li><a href="TurboCache" title="TurboCache">TurboCache</a> (framebuffer in system memory)</li>
<li><a href="Video_Super_Resolution" title="Video Super Resolution">Video Super Resolution</a> (live video upscaling)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">GPU microarchitectures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Celsius_(microarchitecture)" title="Celsius (microarchitecture)">Celsius</a></li>
<li><a href="Kelvin_(microarchitecture)" title="Kelvin (microarchitecture)">Kelvin</a></li>
<li><a href="Rankine_(microarchitecture)" title="Rankine (microarchitecture)">Rankine</a></li>
<li><a href="Curie_(microarchitecture)" title="Curie (microarchitecture)">Curie</a></li>
<li><a href="Tesla_(microarchitecture)" title="Tesla (microarchitecture)">Tesla</a></li>
<li><a href="Fermi_(microarchitecture)" title="Fermi (microarchitecture)">Fermi</a></li>
<li><a href="Kepler_(microarchitecture)" title="Kepler (microarchitecture)">Kepler</a></li>
<li><a href="Maxwell_(microarchitecture)" title="Maxwell (microarchitecture)">Maxwell</a></li>
<li><a href="Pascal_(microarchitecture)" title="Pascal (microarchitecture)">Pascal</a></li>
<li><a href="Volta_(microarchitecture)" title="Volta (microarchitecture)">Volta</a></li>
<li><a href="Turing_(microarchitecture)" title="Turing (microarchitecture)">Turing</a></li>
<li><a href="Ampere_(microarchitecture)" title="Ampere (microarchitecture)">Ampere</a></li>
<li><a href="Hopper_(microarchitecture)" title="Hopper (microarchitecture)">Hopper</a></li>
<li><a href="Ada_Lovelace_(microarchitecture)" title="Ada Lovelace (microarchitecture)">Ada Lovelace</a></li>
<li><a href="Blackwell_(microarchitecture)" title="Blackwell (microarchitecture)">Blackwell</a></li>
<li><a href="Rubin_(microarchitecture)" title="Rubin (microarchitecture)">Rubin</a></li>
<li><a href="Feynman_(microarchitecture)" title="Feynman (microarchitecture)">Feynman</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Other_products10" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Other products</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Graphics <a href="Workstation" title="Workstation">Workstation</a> cards</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Quadro" title="Quadro">Nvidia Quadro</a>
<ul><li><a href="Nvidia_Quadro_Plex" title="Nvidia Quadro Plex">Quadro Plex</a></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="General-purpose_computing_on_graphics_processing_units" title="General-purpose computing on graphics processing units">GPGPU</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Nvidia_Tesla" title="Nvidia Tesla">Nvidia Tesla</a></li>
<li><a href="Nvidia_DGX" title="Nvidia DGX">DGX</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Video_game_console" title="Video game console">Console</a> components</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Xbox_(console)#Technical_specifications" title="Xbox (console)">NV2A</a> <span style="font-size: 85%;">(<a href="Xbox_(console)" title="Xbox (console)">Xbox</a>)</span></li>
<li><a href="RSX_Reality_Synthesizer" title="RSX Reality Synthesizer">RSX 'Reality Synthesizer'</a> <span style="font-size: 85%;">(<a href="PlayStation_3" title="PlayStation 3">PlayStation 3</a>)</span></li>
<li><a href="Tegra#Tegra_X1" title="Tegra">Tegra NX-SoC</a> <span style="font-size: 85%;">(<a href="Nintendo_Switch" title="Nintendo Switch">Nintendo Switch</a>)</span></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Nvidia Shield</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Shield_Portable" class="mw-redirect" title="Shield Portable">Shield Portable</a></li>
<li><a href="Shield_Tablet" class="mw-redirect" title="Shield Tablet">Shield Tablet</a></li>
<li><a href="Shield_Android_TV" class="mw-redirect" title="Shield Android TV">Shield Android TV</a></li>
<li><a href="GeForce_Now" title="GeForce Now">GeForce Now</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="System_on_a_chip" title="System on a chip">SoCs</a> and embedded</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="GoForce" title="GoForce">GoForce</a></li>
<li><a href="Nvidia_Drive" title="Nvidia Drive">Drive</a></li>
<li><a href="Nvidia_Jetson" title="Nvidia Jetson">Jetson</a></li>
<li><a href="Tegra" title="Tegra">Tegra</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Central_processing_unit" title="Central processing unit">CPUs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Project_Denver" title="Project Denver">Project Denver</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Comparison_of_Nvidia_chipsets" class="mw-redirect" title="Comparison of Nvidia chipsets">nForce</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Company10" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Company</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Key people</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Jensen_Huang" title="Jensen Huang">Jen-Hsun Huang</a></li>
<li><a href="Chris_Malachowsky" title="Chris Malachowsky">Chris Malachowsky</a></li>
<li><a href="Curtis_Priem" title="Curtis Priem">Curtis Priem</a></li>
<li><a href="David_Kirk_(scientist)" title="David Kirk (scientist)">David Kirk</a></li>
<li><a href="Bill_Dally" title="Bill Dally">Bill Dally</a></li>
<li>Debora Shoquist</li>
<li>Ranga Jayaraman</li>
<li>Jonah M. Alben</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Acquisitions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="3dfx" title="3dfx">3dfx Interactive</a></li>
<li><a href="Ageia" title="Ageia">Ageia</a></li>
<li><a href="Acer_Laboratories_Incorporated" class="mw-redirect" title="Acer Laboratories Incorporated">ULi</a></li>
<li><a href="Bright_Computing" title="Bright Computing">Bright Computing</a></li>
<li><a href="Cumulus_Networks" title="Cumulus Networks">Cumulus Networks</a></li>
<li><a href="DeepMap" title="DeepMap">DeepMap</a></li>
<li><a href="Icera" title="Icera">Icera</a></li>
<li><a href="Mellanox_Technologies" title="Mellanox Technologies">Mellanox Technologies</a></li>
<li><a href="Mental_Images" title="Mental Images">Mental Images</a></li>
<li><a href="PortalPlayer" title="PortalPlayer">PortalPlayer</a></li>
<li>Exluna</li>
<li>MediaQ</li>
<li>Stexar</li></ul>
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